green poppys????

In our history class these last few weeks we have been learning about the first world war and the Irish influence in the war. on the few years leading up to the war Ireland was seeking home rule from England and things looked promising for the Irish however in July 1941 not only England attention but the worlds attention turned to the war in Europe.This meant that Ireland was pushed to the side for the time being. The politician John Redmond gave many speeches that convinced that Irish men should go and fight in the war for the British, as they believed it would strengthen ties between England and Ireland. Around 200,000 Irish men joined the British army and fought during the war. However the rising in Dublin in 1916 over shadowed the Irish mens efforts and after the rising and executions many Irish people saw the soldiers as traitors and shunned them. 
We feel that the courage and bravery of these men is very often over looked and forgotten about. The poppys we made is our small way of remembering these men. We chose the poppy as it not only is the flower that is used to remember soldiers but the poppy was the only flower that grew in no mans land. It is colored green to represent the irish.  This week we went around to all the classes in our school, spoke to then about whu we made these poppys and asked them that if they wanted to wear them on the 11th of November to wear them to remember all those irish men who fought and died i the war because it was on the 11th of november at 11 o'clock 1918 that the first world war was called to a stop.